Mobile toy.



No. 658,026. Patented Sept. l8, I900.

M. J; STE-Frans.

MOBILE TOY.

(Application filed Jun. 13, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATHENV J. STEFFENS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO I CHARLES HETHERINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

MOBILE TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,026, dated September 18, 1900.

Application filed January 13 1900. Serial No. 1,311. (No model.)

' and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawing illustrates one kind of toy to which my improvements are applicable and is a perspective view of a naval boat.

Hitherto in this art it has been necessary in order to make a mobile nautical toy to provide motor mechanismsuch as a revolving wheel, screw, or paddle and mechanism to rotate the same. My improvements are intended to obviate these expensive and intricate operative mechanisms and provide a toy adapted to be driven entirely by the use of a chemical, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

In constructing my toy and using it in the shape of a boat I prefer to make the boat or the hull of the same A of a piece of celluloid or thin non-absorbent material, stamped out as torepresent a boat and of the proper size so and shape. While in the drawings I have shown this part as being six to eight inches in length, in actual use I intend to make my toys very minute, perhaps from one to two inches in length and one-half to three-quarters of an inch in width.

Upon the deck of the hull portion I arrange an upwardly-projecting deck B, which I prefer to make of cork, and upon the top of this turret or cork deck is arranged an upper deck C, formed of absorbent material, such as blot- 5 ting-paper, and all the parts pinned and secured together by means of an upwardly-projecting mast D, flying a pennant E. t

In use I take a chemical which is highly volatile in its nature, such as ether, and drop a which in my opinion is due to the fact that the highly-volatile liquid is transformed into gas, which in a measure pushes the boat for ward and backward.

Of course it will be understood that I do not intend to limit my improvements to merely the shape of a boat, but intend to apply it to diiferent kinds of toys,all of which can be done without the use of anything more than ordinary mechanical skill.

1. A toy of the class described provided with a piece of material adapted to hold a highly-volatile chemical in suspension so that when the toy is placed in Water it will become self-propelling, substantially as described.

2. A toy of the class described provided with a non-absorbent hull portion, and a portion of absorbent material adapted to [fold a quantity of highly-volatile liquid, substantially as described.

3. In a toy of the class described, the combination of a hull portion formed of non-absorbent material, an upwardly projecting deck portion and a piece of absorbent material such as blotting-paper arranged on the So upwardly-projecting deck portion adapted to hold a quantity of highly-volatile liquid, substantially as described.

MATHEW J. SOTEFFENS.

Witnesses:

THOMAS F. SHERIDAN, THOMAS B.'MOGREGOR.

CUIIGbLIUH Letters Patent No. 658,026.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 658,026, granted September 18,

1900, upon the application of Mathew J. Steflens, of Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Mobile Toys, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In line 34 the word so should be stricken out and inserted after the word out, line 33; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 25th day of September, A. D., 1900.

F. L. CAMPBELL, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Counter-signed WALTER H. OHAMBERLIN,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

